Sentence examples for managed to hear from inspiring English sources

In December 1763 he managed to hear Sir William Blackstone lecture at Oxford but said that he immediately detected fallacies that underlay the grandiloquent language of the future judge.

Of the stretches I managed to hear, the best performances were given by folk singers, representing where she originally came from, and jazz performers, representing where she has inevitably been heading.

Hearing of his death today at the age of 86 it was the singing I thought of, of course, and the little of it I managed to hear live.

Either every soldier somehow managed to hear and see nothing; or they heard and saw but chose to ignore the signs of crime, possibly because it was their own comrades who were committing it.

Perhaps these gifted young composers managed to hear the Scottish Chamber Orchestra's bravura performance of the Hamburg Concerto, the final work by a master of the European avant garde, György Ligeti (1923-2006).

With duct tape over my gob, I was able to pick up some interesting melody lines everywhere from palace to pavement... Despite the almost deafening roar of excitement about Africa's hosting of soccer's World Cup this summer, we managed to hear a surprising thing.

Writer did manage to hear the President ask questions about forest fires, bears, squirrels and ants.

The doctor repeats what she said to me, and from a long distance I manage to hear her, and to reply, "Thank you.

This argument proceeded apace as we hung on to every word we could manage to hear, fearing that this was a doomed relationship indeed, probably of many, many years' standing.

For me, the number of Jews murdered during the Holocaust is so indelibly bound up in association with that event that I can't manage to hear the number mentioned - no matter what the specific context - without a momentary, familiar, almost banal flash of horror.

And how did the criminals not manage to hear them?